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With every singular day that passes, it becomes increasingly transparent that Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and their group are hell-bent on defunding and destroying so many programs and policies that strengthen not only the many exposed people among us, but the environment, the arts, preparation and so much more. Outside …

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during a keynote debate at the Brookings Institution argued for the enlargement of school choice programs, comparing the judgment to the arise of ride-sharing companies. In her first extended policy address, DeVos likened school choice to businesses like Uber or Lyft that yield business with …

Labor secretary hopeful Alex Acosta will shortly be headed to the Senate for a full acknowledgment conference — now that he’s gotten by the rough turn of voting. A Senate row voted 12-11 along party lines Thursday to allege Acosta to the next step in the process. He’ll now go …

She may not be using for office, but Chelsea Clinton is partnering up with Public Advocate Letitia James to take on the issue of gender compensate equity in the city. Clinton assimilated James at a roundtable on the issue on Thursday, where the open disciple announced she expects the City …

Even after injecting chaos into the 2016 election, the Kremlin is still trying to widespread disinformation into the American domestic bloodstream, according to an consultant called by the Senate comprehension committee. Beyond purported division last summer including releasing hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee, Russian-backed sources have been trying …

The Senate on Thursday modernized President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the labor and cultivation departments and changed the new administration closer to stuffing the final span of dull seats in his Cabinet. In back-to-back tallies just off the Senate floor, two committees sent the nominations of former Georgia Gov. …

The disciplinary record of the NYPD cop who killed Eric Garner using a chokehold should sojourn strictly dark from the open – yet the papers leaked just last week, an appeals justice ruled Thursday. The Appellate Division First Department in Manhattan topsy-turvy a reduce justice statute grouping the city to …

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence rushed to the Senate to expel a tie-breaking opinion to let states retard sovereign grants for family formulation centers, to Democrats’ dismay. The magnitude eliminates Obama-era order that kept states from defunding health caring providers like Planned Parenthood for domestic reasons — and could …

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is announcing a devise to speed up the deportation of immigrants in the country illegally who have been convicted of sovereign crimes. Sessions pronounced Thursday that the Justice Department will enhance an existent program directed at holding deportation hearings for immigrants while they are …

Police Commissioner James O’Neill pronounced he’s “very optimistic” the feds won’t go by with a $110 million cut to the NYPD’s counter-terror operations threatened in President Trump’s budget. O’Neill went to Washington, D.C. last week to meet with sovereign officials including Sen. Chuck Schumer and fight the devise to ax …